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Was Jimmy just lazy?
CuntWaffle
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I’m trying to figure out why he turned out to be such a shit show. Ever since he was hired the football teams social media presence and recruiting fell off a Cliff. Pete was good at keeping the pipeline prettt full and getting commits somewhat regularly. Lake just seemed like he didn’t want to try. I knew we were fucked when he called Cade Otton a 5 star recruit when he decided to come back.
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He's a guy who had his ass kissed every step of the way and had no drive to be a great HC. Because he already thought he was a great HC, without proving anything.
He probably actually thought he was bigger than the job, and bigger than UW.
He is that big of an idiot.
Trying and competing and accepting "no" from recruits or criticism from outside the program made him triple down on his own decisions in paranoid/deeply insecure fashion.
Jimmy made a very bad decision by hiring the secretarial assistant to the assistant RB coach from Jacksonville in Jon Donovan, a person no one was looking to hire as an OC at any level, as his OC on UW TE coach Derham Cato's recommendation. Then his seemingly refusal to fire him made a lot of people question his leadership abilities aloud.
Jimmy was one of a very few African American coaches to have a college football head coaching job at the NCAA D1 level and at a power 5 university at that which is a even rarer sight in the NCAA in 2021 https://theundefeated.com/features/even-with-the-recent-push-for-diversity-fewer-black-coaches-getting-top-fbs-head-coaching-jobs/ .
Jimmy should have surrounded himself with a better qualified staff and that is all on him no one else as he had the power to select his staff. Jimmy may well be very well off financially now but he will most likely never be a NCAA D1 head coach again.
All he needed to do was make a couple decent (not even great) coaching hires, pay attention to recruiting, and not be an asshole. I can't even think of someone who fucked up a coaching job as bad as Jimmy did in less than 2 seasons.
To make an analogy, when Jimmy was hired, coaching-wise he was given the ball, first and 10 on the opponent's 30 yard line. Today when he was fired, it was 4th and 35 on his own 45. Jen sent out the punting team
He had no clue how hard it was going to be.
Not because he was black. Gilby stopped recruiting just like Jimmy did.
Because they suck.
Evidently not a humble guy. Great at recruiting DBs for somebody else's defense, not great at anything else.
Way too many other hungry up and comers out there. Way too many guys like Deon Sanders getting into the action.
Jimmy will be lucky to end up like Dan Hawkins.
Jimmy doesn’t know how to grind or face adversity. We all saw what happened when he lost his shit on national TV. So yes, he’s entitled, delusional and lazy
His staff choices were all awful.
With recruiting he absolutely was lazy. If the rumors are true, he may have been lazy because he thought he was turning this season into an nfl gig which also cements him as having no self awareness.